Bernard Shaw and the BBC

I will not consent to the omission of a single word or comma from the first act of Arms and the Man. You can find 40 minutes for a Church service. You can find 45 minutes for a Brahms symphony. You can find 60 minutes for the most damnable variety muck or for one of your intolerable rechauffs of obsolete drivel from the XIX century. Well, if you want me you must find 40, 50, 60, and if necessary 180 minutes for me, or else do without me. Tell those overseas people that their thirty minute arrangements are not applicable to works of art, but only to tripe, which can be cut up and supplied by the pound.